Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people’s perception of the gospel.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
More Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Renewal means more than reinventing ourselves; it means rediscovering the primal power of the Spirit and the gospel already present in the life of the church.
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Reconnecting with this purpose and recovering the forgotten ways. This purpose and potential have always been there, but individuals and communities have largely lost touch with them.
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Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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I found out the hard way that if we don’t disciple people, the culture sure will.
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Our point isn’t to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath.
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In a world that demands service we position ourselves as servants.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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